Deeper Shades of Purple

Deeper Shades of Purple
Author: Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814727530

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Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates some of the leading voices and different perspectives within this burgeoning field. Deeper Shades of Purple brings together a who's who of scholars in the study of Black women and religion who view their scholarship through a womanist critical lens. The contributors revisit Alice Walker's definition of womanism for its viability for the approaches to discourses in religion of Black women scholars. Whereas Walker has defined what it means to be womanist, these contributors define what it means to practice womanism, and illuminate how womanism has been used as a vantage point for the theoretical orientations and methodological approaches of Black women scholar-activists. Contributors: Karen Baker-Fletcher, Katie G. Cannon, M. Shawn Copeland, Kelly Brown Douglas, Carol B. Duncan, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Rachel Elizabeth Harding, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Melanie L. Harris, Diana L. Hayes, Dwight N. Hopkins, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Kwok Pui-Lan, Daisy L. Machado, Debra Majeed, Anthony B. Pinn, Rosetta Ross, Letty M. Russell, Shani Settles, Dianne M. Stewart, Raedorah Stewart-Dodd, Emilie M. Townes, Traci C. West, and Nancy Lynne Westfield.

Deeper Shades of Purple

Deeper Shades of Purple
Author: Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814727522

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Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. This volume explores the achievements of this movement, and evaluates some of the leading voices and different perspectives within this field.

In Search of The Color Purple

In Search of The Color Purple
Author: Salamishah Tillet
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1683356853

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Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the ï¬?rst black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated ï¬?lm and a hit Broadway musical. Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker’s life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her—as a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic. Provocative and personal, In Search of The Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walker’s seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics.

Making a Way Out of No Way

Making a Way Out of No Way
Author: Monica A. Coleman
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2008-08-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451414870

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In her new book, Monica A. Coleman articulates the African American expression of "making a way out of no way" for today's context of globalization, religious pluralism, and sexual diversity. Drawing on womanist religious scholarship and process thought, Coleman describes the symbiotic relationship among God, the ancestors, and humanity that helps to change the world into the just society it ought to be. Making a Way Out of No Way shows us a way of living for justice with God and proposes a communal theology that presents a dynamic way forward for black churches, African traditional religions and grassroots organizations.

Race and Theology

Race and Theology
Author: Elaine A. Robinson
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0687494257

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Even in the Church, justice for some is justice for none.

The Womanist Preacher

The Womanist Preacher
Author: Kimberly P. Johnson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498542069

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The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit performs a close textual analysis of five womanist sermons to answer the question: how does womanist preaching attempt to transform/adapt the tenets of womanist thought to make it rhetorically viable in the church? And what is gained and lost in this? The sermons come from five women who are considered exemplars of womanist preaching: Elaine M. Flake, Gina M. Stewart, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Melva L. Sampson, and Claudette A. Copeland. This book takes the first step in womanist scholarship to dissect what is rhetorically going on in womanist preaching, to categorize womanist sermons under the four tenets of womanist preaching, and to then create four rhetorical models that reflect the rhetorical attributes of the four different categories or phrased tenets that Stacey Floyd-Thomas uses to represent Alice Walker’s “womanist” definition.

Beyond Eden

Beyond Eden
Author: Courtney Pace
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2022-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820368040

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A major figure in African American social justice movements and Black theological praxis and theory, Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940–2002) had not been the subject of a book-length critical study until Courtney Pace’s Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. Now with the publication of Beyond Eden: The Collected Sermons and Essays of Prathia Hall, Pace provides a volume of seminal importance to the fields of womanist theology and ethics, Black church history, and African American history. Beyond Eden explores Hall’s preaching and research, curating a collection of her work to expand scholarship on her influence on American religion and Black churches. Hall pioneered womanist preaching, embodying the necessary interconnections among theology, social science, history, and practical ministry. She was a master organizer, not only leading her congregation but facilitating collaborations among national, regional, and local organizations to serve Black churches and Black communities. The sermons and essays in this volume showcase Hall’s womanist preaching brilliance, the seamless connection between church and the academy in her work, and her understanding of the gospel as Freedom Faith. A trailblazer in the womanist movement of the 1980s and 1990s, Hall merged Christian ethics with Black feminist thought during decades of civil rights activism and preaching. Although she had very few publications due to the demands of her multifaceted vocation, health limitations, and familial responsibilities, her extensive work has been transcribed from handwritten notes and audio recordings by editor Courtney Pace.

T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology

T&T Clark Handbook of African American Theology
Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567675459

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This handbook explores the central theme of Christian faith from various disciplinary approaches and different contexts of black experience in the United States. The central unifying theme is freedom; an important concept both in American culture and Christianity. African American theology represents a Christian understanding of God's freedom and the good news of God's call for all humankind to enter life-true human identity and moral responsibility-in genuine and just community. Contributors to the volume argue that African American theology highlights how racism and other intersecting forms of oppression complicate the human predicament; and that their eradication requires an expansion of salvation to include the liberation of persons who lack full participation in society and enjoyment of the good (and goods) made possible by that society. The essays in this handbook employ the tools of biblical criticism, history, cultural and social analysis, religious studies, philosophy, and systematic theology, in order to explore and assess the nature and impact of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, immigration, and cultural and moral pluralism in America-as well as the intersections between African American and African diasporan religious thought and life.

Theory of Everything…New Scientific Discoveries!

Theory of Everything…New Scientific Discoveries!
Author: Olufolahan Olatoye Akintola
Publisher: Olufolahan Olatoye Akintola
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0956970206

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New scientific discoveries unveiled by comparing scientific principles with spiritual principles of the Bible. This book unveils many interesting parallels between biblical and scientific descriptions of light with new scientific discoveries. BIC subject: HRAM3 - Religion & science BIC subject 2: HRAB1 - Nature & existence of God

Theory Of Everything...Science and the Bible

Theory Of Everything...Science and the Bible
Author: Olufolahan Olatoye Akintola
Publisher: Olufolahan Olatoye Akintola
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-02
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0956970257

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New scientific discoveries unveiled by comparing scientific principles with spiritual principles of the Bible. This book unveils many interesting parallels between biblical and scientific descriptions of light with new scientific discoveries. BIC subject: HRAM3 - Religion & science BIC subject 2: HRAB1 - Nature & existence of God